DIANTHUS. 
leafy as in D. deltoeides, but the whole tuft quite tidy and compact, 
only 3 inches high or so, in a little greyish-green leafy clump, from 
which emerge pink blossoms larger and brighter and altogether more 
attractive. (Greece; as easy as the prototype on which it so vastly 
improves.) 
D. quadrangulus. See under D. Carthusianorum. 
D. repens forms a mass of quite smooth pointed narrow leaves, and 
the 6- to 9-inch stems divide at their very base into two ascending 
branches that split no more, and each produce one flower, this having 
long petals equal to the calyx and scalloped almost into teeth at the 
edge. (Hast Siberia.) 
D. Requienit. See under D. graniticus. 
D. rigidus is a dim Russian species, notably branchy and woody- 
trunked. 
D. robustus (D. superbiens) hangs from the cliffs of Armenia—a 
noble giant, in the way of D. fragrans, with stems about 2 feet long, 
half-woody and breaking into two- to three-flowered sprays of fine 
large saucer-shaped blossoms of pink with shallow toothing to the 
petals. 
D. rupestris, Friv.=D. Friwaldskianus. 
D. Sammartanii, the other extreme of what used to be D. cinna- 
barinus. It has the few copper flowers of D. biflorus, yellow beneath, 
very large and splendid, as big as those of silvestris. But here the 
growth is taller, and up to 18 inches or so, and the blooms are gathered 
closely in heads of three or four, at the tops of the many stems that 
spring from the stock. (From the stony region of Parnassus, &.) 
D. scaber. See under D. Seguiert. 
D. scoparius, a close mound of shoots, and then 6-inch stems, each 
with one great ragged Pink, after the fashion of D. fimbriatus, but 
that it has a shorter calyx. (South Persia.) 
D. Seguieri has the best of its value from blooming long after nearly 
all the rest are gone. In rough woods and coppices and shady banks 
about Saint Martin Vésubie, for instance, as everywhere throughout 
all the seaward ranges of the South, you may find its single lank 
branchy stems of 9 inches or so in the herbage, ending in the single 
large toothed flower of amaranthine magenta, with purple eye (perhaps 
two or three to a stem). The herbage of the tuft at the base is 
scanty, long, and quite grass-like ; a few pairs of the same long narrow- 
pointed leaves are set at rare intervals by the joints of the stem. The 
plant has the greatest value for bloom in autumn, and in cultivation 
proves extremely enduring and desirable in stony places, whether they 
be in sun or shade, the brilliance cf its tone redeeming it from 
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